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Assessment of Self Perception of Competencies among a Group of Dental interns in Pondicherry, India
CONTEXT: The general dentist must not only have a broad biomedical and clinical education but also be able to demonstrate professional and ethical behavior as well as effective communication and interpersonal skills. In addition he or she must have the ability to evaluate and utilize emerging techno...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6967155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32002427 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_53_19 |
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author | Muthu, Jananni Muthanandam, Sivaramakrishnan Sethuraman, K. R. Narayan, K. A. Ananthakrishnan, N. Adkoli, B. V. |
author_facet | Muthu, Jananni Muthanandam, Sivaramakrishnan Sethuraman, K. R. Narayan, K. A. Ananthakrishnan, N. Adkoli, B. V. |
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description | CONTEXT: The general dentist must not only have a broad biomedical and clinical education but also be able to demonstrate professional and ethical behavior as well as effective communication and interpersonal skills. In addition he or she must have the ability to evaluate and utilize emerging technologies, continuing professional development opportunities, and problem-solving and critical thinking skills to effectively address current and future issues in health care. But the extent to which the core competencies are taught and the students’ level of proficiency in these competencies in Indian scenario is to be explored at large. AIMS: The present study aims at assessing the self-perceived level of competencies and their importance for future practice and the extent to which the competencies are taught in the curriculum among interns of dental college in Pondicherry, India. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: The cross-sectional observational study was conducted among dental interns of Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, Pondicherry. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A total of 72 interns participated in the study. A short version of the Freiburg Questionnaire to Assess Competencies in Medicine” was used in this study. Questionnaire has three sections with same set of questions, which the student had to rate: (i) To what extent do you have the following competencies at your disposal? (ii) To what extent will your future job require the following competencies? and (iii) To what extent is competencies taught to you? After the results were obtained a focused group discussion with the responders was done. Focused group discussion consisted of open questions to the groups in all the four domains and the responses of the students were scribed. RESULTS: In all four domains, self-perceived level of competency was not satisfactory. However, all students stated that the competencies were highly relevant for their future practice. Despite this, most of the competencies are not taught to necessary extent in the curriculum. The results of the present survey revealed that the participating students perceived deficiencies in all domains of competencies. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that the core competencies are still barely integrated into dental curricula and that further research in this field is needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-69671552020-01-30 Assessment of Self Perception of Competencies among a Group of Dental interns in Pondicherry, India Muthu, Jananni Muthanandam, Sivaramakrishnan Sethuraman, K. R. Narayan, K. A. Ananthakrishnan, N. Adkoli, B. V. J Educ Health Promot Original Article CONTEXT: The general dentist must not only have a broad biomedical and clinical education but also be able to demonstrate professional and ethical behavior as well as effective communication and interpersonal skills. In addition he or she must have the ability to evaluate and utilize emerging technologies, continuing professional development opportunities, and problem-solving and critical thinking skills to effectively address current and future issues in health care. But the extent to which the core competencies are taught and the students’ level of proficiency in these competencies in Indian scenario is to be explored at large. AIMS: The present study aims at assessing the self-perceived level of competencies and their importance for future practice and the extent to which the competencies are taught in the curriculum among interns of dental college in Pondicherry, India. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: The cross-sectional observational study was conducted among dental interns of Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, Pondicherry. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A total of 72 interns participated in the study. A short version of the Freiburg Questionnaire to Assess Competencies in Medicine” was used in this study. Questionnaire has three sections with same set of questions, which the student had to rate: (i) To what extent do you have the following competencies at your disposal? (ii) To what extent will your future job require the following competencies? and (iii) To what extent is competencies taught to you? After the results were obtained a focused group discussion with the responders was done. Focused group discussion consisted of open questions to the groups in all the four domains and the responses of the students were scribed. RESULTS: In all four domains, self-perceived level of competency was not satisfactory. However, all students stated that the competencies were highly relevant for their future practice. Despite this, most of the competencies are not taught to necessary extent in the curriculum. The results of the present survey revealed that the participating students perceived deficiencies in all domains of competencies. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that the core competencies are still barely integrated into dental curricula and that further research in this field is needed. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6967155/ /pubmed/32002427 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_53_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Education and Health Promotion http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Muthu, Jananni Muthanandam, Sivaramakrishnan Sethuraman, K. R. Narayan, K. A. Ananthakrishnan, N. Adkoli, B. V. Assessment of Self Perception of Competencies among a Group of Dental interns in Pondicherry, India |
title | Assessment of Self Perception of Competencies among a Group of Dental interns in Pondicherry, India |
title_full | Assessment of Self Perception of Competencies among a Group of Dental interns in Pondicherry, India |
title_fullStr | Assessment of Self Perception of Competencies among a Group of Dental interns in Pondicherry, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of Self Perception of Competencies among a Group of Dental interns in Pondicherry, India |
title_short | Assessment of Self Perception of Competencies among a Group of Dental interns in Pondicherry, India |
title_sort | assessment of self perception of competencies among a group of dental interns in pondicherry, india |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6967155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32002427 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_53_19 |
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